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The only mention I can find of "400 years" is the War Doctor's comment in ''The Day of the Doctor'', while the 3 incarnations are in the (unlocked) cell in the Tower of London, about how much older than him the Eleventh Doctor is. I can't find '''any''' indication of how long he fought, except for the visual one (the War Doctor's appearance at the end of ''The Night of the Doctor'', compared with his appearance in ''The Day...''). --[[Special:Contributions/89.241.216.168|89.241.216.168]]<sup>[[User talk:89.241.216.168#top|talk to me]]</sup> 16:57, June 12, 2015 (UTC) | The only mention I can find of "400 years" is the War Doctor's comment in ''The Day of the Doctor'', while the 3 incarnations are in the (unlocked) cell in the Tower of London, about how much older than him the Eleventh Doctor is. I can't find '''any''' indication of how long he fought, except for the visual one (the War Doctor's appearance at the end of ''The Night of the Doctor'', compared with his appearance in ''The Day...''). --[[Special:Contributions/89.241.216.168|89.241.216.168]]<sup>[[User talk:89.241.216.168#top|talk to me]]</sup> 16:57, June 12, 2015 (UTC) | ||
:I edited that line. I assume the idea comes from the novel ''Engines of War'', which says on pages 11-12: "Cinder had heard it said that in simple, linear terms, the war had been going on for over four hundred years. This, of course, was an untruth, or at least an irrelevance; the temporal war zones had permeated so far and so deep into the very structure of the universe that the conflict had--quite literally--been raging for eternity. There was no epoch that remained unscathed, uncontested, no history that had not been rewritten." However, the fact that the war itself had been going on for over 400 years can't be taken as proof that the War Doctor had been fighting for that long, since the Time War was already going on in ''Night of the Doctor'' when the Eight regenerated into the War Doctor, and ''Engines of War'' says that the War Doctor himself had been around for "a hundred years or more", saying on p. 20: "Around him, the roundels on the walls glowed with a faint luminescence, causing the craggy lines on his face to be picked out in shadow: the map of a hundred years or more, worn thin through conflict and weariness." [[User:Hypnosifl|Hypnosifl]] [[User talk:Hypnosifl|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:47, June 12, 2015 (UTC) | |||